737 Jockeys what do you think?
Folks,
appreciating your opinion in the following situation:
1. Having a discussion with a collegue about autobrake: He claims, autobrake doenstn make sense, he switches it always off. I claimed that autobrake is a usefull tool. what do you think are the pros and the negative points of using that tool? How do you handle it?
2.Approach, straight in. We had pretty strong tailwind, also the glide intercept on the airport was pretty low, exactly 2000 agl, 7nm out. i preferred to fly not so speedy, leveling of at 13nm to get rid of the 250kt to 210 with the aim in driving the flaps 1 and 10 at 10nm. my collegue meant in the approach, that it was to conservative and we were flying too much level. i just answered, that this approach planning an conducting makes me feel good and save. approach was smooth and well established, we just had 5nm level in which we bustet 40kt speed and 2nm at 210. is that too conservative?? never thought about that in 4 years, but seems so.
what do you think?
greetz from denmark
OD